. The storied West Indies . ,I w a-. brOUgh I to i\desert Idm srwral expeditions > the great Englisli •.,•.) pirate, Sir IVaiui. Drake, lia>lmmd the fill]ol forlOTO Santo I lomingO In 1586, PoV , he did nil he could to destroy the capital, after hehad reduced it b^ his fleet; l»ni the massively con•nai,i,,l houses resisted his attempts to fire them,so that he was finally induced to compromise on :iran-,an ,»i iwimiin five thousand duoats (about thirtythousand dollars) and take his departure, /Vgain, Ini -i) >, not long before hia death, he harried ilnv coastsan,I hasten
. The storied West Indies . ,I w a-. brOUgh I to i\desert Idm srwral expeditions > the great Englisli •.,•.) pirate, Sir IVaiui. Drake, lia>lmmd the fill]ol forlOTO Santo I lomingO In 1586, PoV , he did nil he could to destroy the capital, after hehad reduced it b^ his fleet; l»ni the massively con•nai,i,,l houses resisted his attempts to fire them,so that he was finally induced to compromise on :iran-,an ,»i iwimiin five thousand duoats (about thirtythousand dollars) and take his departure, /Vgain, Ini -i) >, not long before hia death, he harried ilnv coastsan,I hastened the end oi tlm already moribund colonyFinally, m 1606, the royal court at Madrid orderedit-, ports closed, except the harbor of Santo Domingo, and all the Spanish families into the interior,\\ complied, becoming agriculturists oi 8 rudesort, though others emigrated to the more , colonies of Mexico, Ouba, and Peru, leavingtheir plantations uncultivated and their houses to EfO l*1 mm. ! ?-. , r. •. -? ; 136 THE STORIED WEST INDIES cestors had long ruled in the mountains of Baoruco,and he himself was educated in the Franciscan monas-tery of the capital. Indignant at the cruelties ofthe Spaniards toward his countrymen, and revoltingat the inhumanity of the man to whom he wasassigned in a repartimiento, he organized the Indianssecretly, collected arms from their masters, and fledto the mountains. He and his followers only de-fended themselves, never attacked; but they kept upthe fight for more than ten years, eventually securinga truce, which was kept for five years, and an honor-able peace in 1534. There were then remainingabout four thousand Indians, and they were assignedlands at Boya, about fifty miles north of the had been converted to Christianity while inthe monastery, and told a missionary that he hadnever failed to repeat his prayers every day duringthe long period of revolt, and that he was now happyto conclude a peace, as he des
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